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The Limits Of Computer 


Intelligence I I 


by Dr. Lloyd Dreger 


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feedback 
keep iterative 
indefinitely. Our 
not only while 
while under 


Neural connections do form 
loops that can 
processing going 

brains process data 
sleeping but also 
anesthesia or in a coma. As any 
psychologist will tell you, we don't 
have to be conscious of what we think. 
Only when a stimulus becomes strong 
enough so ıt can demand attention will 
we become conscious of it. That is 
probably why certain thoughts arise to 
conscious attention when we relax a 
bit as when resting or before falling 
asleep or sleeping. But becauseé man is 
a very well trained social animal 
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well. Both these 
under hypnosis 
form of brain 


to be suppressed as 
may be brought out 
which is really a 
relaxation. 


All this is leading up to one 
conclusion. The brain is extremely 
complex. Since nobody wants his brain 
to be used aS a guinea pig for 
experimentation, all discoveries about 
human brain function has had to come 
from people suffering from brain 
damage to certain areas of the brain 
and autopsies. The cerebral cortex has 
been mapped down to quite small areas 
of function containing millions of 
neurons. No one yet has found out the 
function of a particular neuron and 
mapped its interconnections. No one 
knows how many neurons are involved in 
going froma particular input to the 
final cognition of an idea. It is 
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The whole idea of brain simulation to 
achieve cognition seems several orders 
of magnitude too complex to be 
There 1S something called 
“complexity theory which states that 
orders of complexity increase as a 
power series of the number of levels 
of complexity and soon reach a state 
even multiple processing cannot reduce 


to a practical amount of time. Just 
because time doesn't make it 
practical. Brains do cause minds but 
the process is very complex not only 
in understanding it but also in 
Simultating it. There has to be a 
simpler way as this approach has a 


very low probability of ever being 
practical. Most of AI has resulted in 
very expensive research papers and 


nothing more. 


Conclusion 2: Any other system capable 
of causing minds would have to have 
causal powers equivalent to brains. 
Minds can think. We don't necessarily 
have - to simulate neural brain 
patterns, all we have too do is 
Simulate how we think. This line of 
attack has several advantages over 
)brain simulation as it merely involves 
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looking at our learning 
processes. At the same time we could 
just possibly gain some insights into 


achieving a better way of teaching. 


We start with a new born baby whose 
mind is almost devoid of most 
everything except a system of 


biological built in instincts. Many so 


called instincts in ourselves and 
animals are not really built in but 
are learned and as such may require 


some rudimentary form of 
Walking, eye coordination, playing the 
piano etc. are some of these. Take 
playing the piano as an example. When 
we first start we have to think about 
which keys we have to hit and in what 


cognition. 


order and now long we have to hold 
those keys down which takes a lot of 
cerebral activity. With a lot of 
practice we get to a point where we 


don't know what keys we are playing 
but it just comes out and we achieve a 
smoother type of coordination then we 
— could ever do thinking about every 
step. Control of playing a particular 


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piano piece has moved frorn the 
cerebrum to the cerebellum. If for 
some reason we fell that we are 
misplaying a note, we go back into an 
active thinking mode and low and 
behold our smooth playing has once 
more degenerated into the jerky 
learning stage all over again. Wee can 


also gain some conscious control over 
some automatic body functions such as 
breathing and heartbeat. 


AS we pointed out above, human brains 
and many animal brains as well are not 
fully grown at birth. In addition, our 
bodies ‘don't have the muscle strength 
to achieve two-legged walking until we 
first exercise those muscles for a 
year or so. We also need growing of 
brain interconnections to achieve the 
necessary coordination. This also 
includes speech which demands exacting 
control of the entire oral cavity and 
breath control. A lot of effort in 
those first few years goes into 
learning how to control our body. 


But we digress. Babies are born with 5 
senses. In a newborn the senses still 
need training (sight does require some 
ability to focus andall sounds are 
except familiarity to the 
mother's voice & heartbeat. The fetus 
has heard these for several months 
while in the womb, the pleasure center 
is more akin to being comfortable or 
uncomfortable. Comfortable also is 
associated with familiar --being born 
is a traumatic experience the familiar 
mother's heartbeat is suddenly gone 
which is the reason newborn babies 
should be held a lot so they again 
hear that familiar prenatal heartbeat 
to assure them that all is well. It is 
this pleasure/pain center which gives 
the mind the ability to experience. 
The powerful technique of reward and 


punishment as first demonstrated by 
Povlov's dogs now becomes a most 
powerful teaching technique. A baby 


gets hungry. This hunger is reflected 
in discomfort. The baby cries in 
response to this discomfort and gets 
fed. In a week or two when it has 
learned to focus its eyes, it notices 
that a specific face appears with the 


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food and soon relates the face to 
comfort and the feeding process. Much 
latter the face is related to pleasure 
(Something more than just comfortable) 


and a lot of other feelings and 
sensations. Finally it relates the 
sound "mama" to the face. Still later, 


that the sound "mama" is one of a 
group of things with the sound called 
a word. This last is how simple 
concepts combine to form complex and 
abstract concepts. We leave it to the 
student to work out the relations 
involved in the following string of 
concepts: mama, mommy, mom, mother, a 
mother (requires consciousness of 
self), parent, family, clan, nation, 
race, mankind. All these different 
relationships stored in diverse 
portions of the brain are brought 
together to form the concept of the 
term "mama". Other senses also affect 
the pleasure/pain center to a lesser 
or greater degree in similar ways with 
Similar cause/effect experiences. 


Now, how do you reward or punish a 
computer? The ability to relate, not 
in the mathcmatical sense of equal as 
we pointed out earlier, but in a 
cause/effect relationship turns into 
experiences. The grand total of all 
experiences relating to a particular 
item result ın the concept. The 
keywords or attributes associated with 
LISP and/or PROLOG suffer from one 
fatal fault--they are not experiences 
or something the computer can relate 
to. They thus remain meaningless. 


The student will see from the above 
discussion how all the rest of man's 
thinking and reasoning can result. We 
should add one small point. The effect 
of pretending, aping, or mimicking is 
another way man can learn. Reading is 
still another way of experiencing. All 
are artificial forms of gaining 
experiences. This is especially true 
with learning speech. The babblings of 
a baby have sounds in them that are 
not in any language. By listening, the 
child tries imitating the adults 
around him. (It would be better not to 
talk baby talk to them as they just 
have to relearn. However, a 3 month 


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usually write down a few words, 


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nonsense syllables since adults become 
so well trained on words that K Á 
forget the nonsense stuff which ha © 
meanıngs.) We usually do not think in 
terms of words but usually ın terms of 
words but usually in terms of pictures 


where our visual area becomes a blank 
piece of paper we are writing on or 
where we are visualizing something 
concrete. During these times our eyes 


are seeing but it isn't being recorded 
as the recording section of the brain 
is busy with our idea. People 
sometimes have difficulty verbalizing 
their ideas as putting something we 
see into words is not always easy. 
Words and language are for 
communicating to others which can be 
another form of learning. The trouble 
with words is that they mean different 
things to different people and part of 
effective communication is to check 
from time to time to make sure our 
audience is using the same definition. 
Thoughts are fleeting in that they 
only exist for a few minutes at most 
(some say seconds or fractions of a 
second). Writing has helped mankind | 
retain these thoughts as a form f 
memory. People who are thinking 
or are 
drawing a picture to help them recall 
the train of thoughts later. The first 
written languages were pictograms like 
the well known Egyptian hieroglyphics. 


Phonic sounds are added as needed and 
in the case of Chinese and Japanese 
the various symbol elements become 
simplified. Despite this, these 


languages become too cumbersome to use 
so that eventually the phonic symbols 


win out. Simplifying the phonics into 
an alphabet where one or at most 2 
letters represent. a sound keeps 


everything down to a memorizable set. 


Then usage steps in and modifies the 
sounds so that an English, German and 
French "a" are not sounded the same 


and any resemblance to the original is 
purely accidental. 


Now, how the brain, with its pleasure/ 
pain center and its ability iO 
associate, probably turns inputs its 
experiences and finally concepts, 


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becomes a bit clearer to understand in 
principal. In the process we have had 
to invoke feelings, awareness of self 
and even a social consciousness with 
ethical and moral implications. How 
the brain does this with processing of 
signals through complex neural 
pathways still remains puzzling. 

George in discussing scientific 
problem solving techniques, states 
that language is essential as most 
problems are stated in words while 
concepts are represented by words and 
feelings. We have pointed out that it 
is this area where the computer is 
having all the trouble. Sometimes the 
problem has to be redefined and/or 
broken down into various sub-problems. 
The second step is hypothesizing and 


testing a theory or probable solution 
which of necessity requires picking 
the pertinent data, facts and concepts 
from a sea of all facts, data and 


Applying concepts sometimes 
requires setting down mathematical 
formula which change from one 
application to another of the same 
Principal or concept. The human mind 
when working on a problem develops 
many hypotheses or solutions and in 
examination, rejects them or modifies 
them and sometimes reexamines 
previously discarded ones. 


concepts. 


Sometimes in 
has to 


analysing a problem one 
develop new concepts asa “if 
only we could". Visualize Archimedes 
with the problem of the king's crown. 
In an era when Chemistry was still 
unknown, he had to discover a way to 
measure the volume of an irregular 
object without destroying it. While 
getting into a tub of water to take a 
bath and thus obviously not 
consciously thinking of his problem, 
he discovered a basic principal of 
hydrostatics and immediately knew he 
had the missing method. We all have 
had periods of inspiration when 
intuition said we were right although 
we couldn't immediately prove it. 
Einstein used "thought experiments" to 
think through his theory of 
These experiments are 
still used to explain the implications 
of his theory today. Relativity not 


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hypothesis, 


only had 
explained 


to explain everything 
with Newton's theory of 
gravitation but also some facts which 
gravitation couldn't explain. It went 
further than explaining the exceptions 
but predicted certain other phenomena 
which weren't yet observed because 
nobody ever thought of looking for 
them. Expediency does not allow us (or 
the computer) looking for them. 
Expediency does not allow us (or the 
computer) to apply every concept we 
know to try and solve every problem we 
meet. We must carefully select only 
those that might apply. When does one 
apply the method of "reducto ad 
adsurdum" --proving that everything 
else leads to contradictions so thus 
what we are trying to prove must be 
correct by default. 


This is the true area of problem 
solving technique and thinking-— 
analysis of a problem to find out what 
the real problem | is, breaking -a 
Problem down into simpler solvable 
parts, selecting applicable principals 
and concepts .to try, designing a 
hypothesis which explains everything 
that has to be explained, designing 
test which will prove or disprove the 
looking at the hypothesis 
further to see if there are other 
implications which may defeat or 
enhance the hypotheses over and beyond 
the immediate problem (as in the case 
of Relativity). 


If we are going to have our computer 
and its algorithm do thinking we first 
have to have it truly understand 
words, concepts and principals (rules 
of thumb). Thus, until a computer can 
experience in a cause/effect way and 
make associations between experiences 
similar to that of man (or animal), 
even this thinking simulation approach 
to getting a computer to think also 
fails. ` 


If a computer were ever designed to 
include the presently missing 
pleasure/pain center and the missing 
soft-logical element of association 
one would soon encounter problems 
where one would have to cope with the 
problems associated with the social 


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consciousness and its implied ethical 
and moral principals which now become 
part of the computers freedom to act 
as it sees fit. How you design a 
computer with these elements is left 
to the experts. The pleasure/pain 


center has to be more than a set of 
flags as the computer now uses. 


Proposition 3 thus, at present, 
remains true and computers won't be 
able to think on their own. We agree 
with Penrose, although ina different 
approach, The Emperor's New Mind is 
lacking something which prevents it 
from becoming a mind but keeps it 
merely a computer. 


BIBLOGRAPHY 
Searle, John R., "Is the Brain's Mind 
a Computer Program?", Scientific 


American, Vol. 226, Jan. 1990, p. 26ff 
Churchland, Paul M. and Partica Smith, 


"Could a Machine Think.", Scientific 
American, Vol. 226, Jan. 1990, p. 32ff 
Penrose, Roger, The Emperor's New 


Mind, Oxford University Press, 1989. 
Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Neuronal Man, 
Oxford University Press, 1985. 

George, F. M., Problem Solving, 
Duckworth, 1980. 


PRESIDENTS PROGRAM 
Well the club just got the newsletters 
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computer was down and were not able to 
get it printed for a while. They said 
they thought the next Sinclair 
Computer Fest/Expo would be in the 
great state of Indiana. Is this true? 
We the Sinclair users would like to 
know. Put me down for a ticket and 
SMUG for a table. I also suspect there 
will be at least 5 other tickets 
purchased for our group. In fact we 
will be there with bells on and would 
be glad to supply a speaker or two. 


I have received my latest issue of 
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In keeping with the 
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going to combine newsletters and 
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community for all members. Quite a few 


First Neal was unable to attend as he 
was sick with the flu. So his computer 
was missed. Along with Dick's. Dick 
didn't want to bring his with all the 
rough roads from the snow storm. This 


of us joined SNUG to help it help the meant no modem training or 

“family”. I think we need to here from demonstration. 

SNUG. 

; Dick reported on the treasury, it is 

Also notice the Vulcan publication, in good shape, and how the special 

Computer monthly has no Sinclair projects are helping increase our 

section. Note it!!! finances. 

Up comming events: Sat Jan. r2: 

Waukesha County Expo.$3 at the door. Bill passed out a few letters for 
answering. We have been getting more 
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The final item for the night was a 
surprise visit from an prior member. 
None other than John Wells. John is 
running a local FIDO board and has a 
Sinclair node. He came to us to report 
on the board. I was not aware of the 


board and I want to try it. Please 
note it is a local call, if you live 
in the Milwaukee exchange, and they 


carry both messages and down loads. He 
reports that the boss sysop is going 
to drop the Sinclair node if more 
messages are not forthcoming. Give it 
a call. John also has a Genealogy 
node. If you are into that you can 
leave a message and can use searches 
in other parts of the country. 


John's number for the Sinclair node is 
(414) 761-2582 and go to the "The City 
Of Flag's" BBS. The genealogy board is 
the same number but go to the 
“Genealogy's Done" board. 


One final item is remember the January 
meeting is the start of the year and 
will require your dues payment for 
1991. We do have the room for next 
year and need your help and support. 


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S.M.U.G., P.O. Box 101, Butler WI, use with the "WORDMASTER" 
d 53007. 11/19/90 program. 
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I have enclosed the following items camera I am using. 
for your comments and advice. 9. "WORDMASTER" program screen color 

1. listing of menu program - loader substitution patterns palette. 
for the video digitizing programs 10. “WORDMASTER" program printouts of 
I am using. the original B&W and retouched 

2. revisions for "EYE BY NIGHT" and hand colored digitized video 
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the LARKEN disk system. 11. "“WORDMASTER" program printout of 

3. revisions for "VIDEOTEX" program the retouched and hand colored 
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disk system. B&W only, six images per page. 

4. revisions for "VIDEO 3-D" 12. photocopies of the original 
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6. PRINT and MINIPRINT printouts selecting each of the printout 
from the "VIDEO 3-D" program of a size options. 
womans face. 14. 160 x 160 block rescaled with the 

Te summary of my initial video "ART STUDIO" program and printed 
digitising efforts, retouching with the correct aspect ratio 
the digitized images with the with the "WORDMASTER" program. 


“ART STUDIO" program, and their The rest of the letter refers to 
i LARKEN disk and ram urage. 


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